YumEx problem

[Robin Laing]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2006 3:56 pm, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>Using yumex 0.44, I have the ability to remove under the remove icon
>>on the left of the screen.
>>
> 
> Guess you missed my followup - you're right - it was staring me in the face...
> 
> 
>>Under Repos, I can select what repos I want to use and save that
>>profile for quick changes.  I normally just use the fedora repos but
>>every once in a while, I check the rest for updates.  I enable most if
>>I am looking for something particular.  Change the selected repos and
>>then press the Refresh button.
> 
> I have profiles set up, myself. I pretty much operate the way you describe. My 
> big objection was the extremely long time it took to do whatever it did at 
> the outset. Anne reported 18 minutes on her system, before Yumex was ready to 
> do something. In this mornings test, it took over 5 minutes on my system. 
> After doing what Tim suggested, we both have experienced greatly reduced 
> startup times. 
> 
> I still hope for more functionality in the window listings. I would like to 
> see a list that includes everything that's available, including what's 
> installed on my system (marked so), for any given set of repos. When 
> installing packages from source, which I do a lot, because packages aren't 
> available for FC4, it makes it very easy to check for dependency availablity, 
> and what might be entailed if a package containing a dependency is installed. 
> On my agenda is to learn how to make rpm packages from source, but I must 
> wait for some time to devote to that. 

In the past, I have used checkinstall to install most homemade 
compiles.  This creates an rpm of the package and then you install the 
rpm.  Now the package works like a normal RPM.

I find that most applications I am looking for I can find from one of 
the many repositories.  But then comes the issues with how they make 
their packages.  Some have some weird requirements that I don't like 
and in the past I have come to avoid those repositories.

I do agree that the interface needs cleaning.  It would be nice if 
there were three selection columns for updates, install and remove, 
which were all sortable.  But until that date...

I find that 5 minutes is normal.  I find that most of the time is 
determining the mirror to use.  I have to play with it as our IT 
department has setup some local mirrors.

Yumex is still better than having to get a full list via CLI and then 
sorting it out.